Are you looking for a way to improve SEO of your WordPress website? While there’s probably a plugin for this, we have created a quick code snippet that you can use to use SEO friendly title in your current theme in WordPress.
Instructions:
All you have to do is replace the title tag of your theme’s header.php file with this code:
<title><?php if ( is_category() ) {
echo 'Category Archive for "'; single_cat_title(); echo '" | '; bloginfo( 'name' );
} elseif ( is_tag() ) {
echo 'Tag Archive for "'; single_tag_title(); echo '" | '; bloginfo( 'name' );
} elseif ( is_archive() ) {
wp_title(''); echo ' Archive | '; bloginfo( 'name' );
} elseif ( is_search() ) {
echo 'Search for "'.wp_specialchars($s).'" | '; bloginfo( 'name' );
} elseif ( is_home() ) {
bloginfo( 'name' ); echo ' | '; bloginfo( 'description' );
} elseif ( is_404() ) {
echo 'Error 404 Not Found | '; bloginfo( 'name' );
} elseif ( is_single() ) {
wp_title('');
} else {
echo wp_title( ' | ', false, right ); bloginfo( 'name' );
} ?></title>
Note: If this is your first time adding code snippets in WordPress, then please refer to our guide on how to properly add code snippets in WordPress, so you don’t accidentally break your site.
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